Canada Closes Embassy in Iran

By

Paul Vieira

Updated Sept. 7, 2012 2:30 p.m. ET

OTTAWA—Canada said Friday it had shut its embassy in Tehran and would expel all Iranian diplomats in the country, severing diplomatic ties amid a stepped-up campaign by the U.S. and its allies to isolate Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement Friday that Canada has closed its embassy in Iran, effective immediately, and ordered the expulsion of all Iranian diplomats in the...